Tuesday, July 8, 2025
With classes mostly online, cheating has become easier, students say. / VN photo by Devonne Mccullough BY RYAN RUTKOWSKI / VN STAFF WRITER Academic fraud has been and always will be a large issue for universities, especially when 82% of undergraduates claim to have cheated before. The “82% problem,” according […]
BY ALY REIFF / VN STAFF WRITER Detroit Mercy students are required to wear masks when on campus as one of the protocols to keep students and faculty members safe from the virus. But walking across campus these days, one notices that some masks speak a lot louder than others. […]
The campus is fairly quiet this semester, with almost all classes online. / VN photo by Devonne Mccullough BY BENJAMIN BLAZEVIC / VN STAFF WRITER Many students are having difficulties getting used to an online schedule, but how are professors doing? Online education is unfamiliar to some professors as well. […]
David Byrne and Brendan Leonard in their Titan days. / Art courtesy of Detroit Titan Sports Info BY ANTHONY OCCHIUTO / VN STAFF WRITER Brendan Leonard and David Byrne, two Titans who have contributed to the golf team’s storied past, are adding to their successes in the professional ranks. After […]
BY JORGE REYNA / VN STAFF WRITER With this not being your typical NBA playoffs due to Covid-19, there have been a lot of unexpected turns. Like the Clippers committing one of the biggest chokes of the season or in playoff history and the Heat kicking out the number one […]
BY MADELYN RUSH / VN SPECIAL WRITER The American Dream is what brought Cristina Martinez and her nine siblings more than 4,000 miles from Valencia, Spain, to America in 2012. They were in search of a better life, in a foreign land. “I kept getting F’s in English class and […]
Photo by Tanaja Campbell BY TANAJA CAMPBELL / VN STAFF WRITER Aside from transforming classes, the pandemic has also brought big changes to the dining halls. “Business has changed drastically because of Covid,” said a staff member who works for Metz, the company that handles food services at Detroit Mercy. “We went from serving 700 people to […]
An architectural rendering of what the new digital media lab could look like. BY ISAIAH WARREN / VN STAFF WRITER An alumni committee is formulating a plan to raise $1.5 million to transform much of the lower level of Briggs Building into a state-of-the-art wing for communication studies. The department includes […]
BY MAXINE MOORE / VN COLULMNIST It was March 11 when the city of Detroit recorded its first case of “The Rona,” the latest coronavirus. My teammates and I were at the Royal Oak Hop Cat when a barrage of emails flooded our in-boxes: University of Detroit Mercy was pausing […]
This is one in a series of stories about international Detroit Mercy students who are taking online courses and spending their semester back at home overseas. BY SARA MITRAKOVIC / VN STAFF WRITER This is Iris Thioux. She’s a French student at Detroit Mercy, currently in the last year of […]
